Garden of the Gods

Thursday, 7 May 2014

Today we drove to the US Air Force Academy   in Colorado Springs and got a spot at the Peregrine Famcamp (campground) on the base. It's a very nice campground  with trees and full service (electric, water and waste) for a reasonable cost They have 105 sites for  campers (motor homes/fifth wheels and campers) year round and have ten sites for tents.  Warnings are posted to keep animals on a lease as there are mountain lions and bears here. Plus they have  rattlesnakes.  The altitude here is 6035.  Altitude does strange things to sealed items.  Our toothpaste and lotions explode out of the tube and see the photo below of the potato chips.

 On the way in, I drove by the dump station since we weren't able to dump the tanks in Canon City. It was closed for maintenance and  as I turned around to get out, I scraped (dented) the left side of the truck. Damaged   both doors and the front part of the bed. DAMN!! Can't open the rear door .Picture below.

Since we had a bit of time left in the day after getting set up, we visited the "Garden of the Gods".It is a beautiful area full of rocks to include the "Balanced Rock. I'ts really amazing  how it stays erect with only a small base. Seems that there are a lot of rocks there that could topple over any time.

                                                              Boomer

                                                              Balanced Rock

                                                   Balanced Rock

                                               
                                                      Our New Sign at new campsite

                                                            High Alltitude blown up bag